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Bill Radford

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We have an addition to our chicken flock, courtesy of the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region. Our flock has consisted of six chickens we got as chicks two years ago - five hens and an unexpected rooster. Now we're up to seven with the recently adopted hen. By the way, if you're...

This is not a pleasant topic. But it's a question pretty much any owner of horses or other large animals - llamas, goats, etc. - will have to face at some point: What do you do with the body when your animal dies?
It's not a goldfish you can send to a watery grave. It's not a cat you...

We have a barn!
Well, sort of. Almost. A "pre-barn," really.
I wrote a column in December containing my Christmas wish list; topping that list was a barn. We have 3½ acres of pasture, but as I noted, there was no home for horses when we moved in. So we had a run-in shelter...

Tuesday’s Country Life column on Jerry Kaufman’s memories of German POWs working on the family farm in Nebraska during World War II resulted in a torrent of emails and phone calls.
Some of those were people with stories of their own; others called or emailed to let me know that Fort...

A recent column spurred Jerry Kaufman of Black Forest to send me an email that included a few memories of growing up on a farm in Nebraska.
In the email, Kaufman matter-of-factly mentioned Italian and German POWs working on the farm during World War II.
Wait, what? German prisoners...

Our horse, Nikki, is kind of a pig when it comes to dining, tossing her hay every which way as she scarfs it down as fast as possible.
Nikki also has long had digestive issues, particularly diarrhea, sometimes so bad it runs down her back legs. (I apologize to those reading this over...

Though winter appears to be taking a break this week, it'll be back. And recent snowstorms - including one that kept me holed up in a downtown hotel overnight instead of venturing home - have had me thinking about emergency preparedness.
While I was stuck in town, my wife, Margaret,...

I've written about our goat Nana, who we rescued at an early age and who spent a bit of time indoors; though she and her companion, Christmas, now live outdoors, Nana has made it clear she'd be perfectly happy hanging out on the couch with the dogs.
Cheryl Sellin has a goat that...

No "farm fresh eggs" for us this winter - at least not from our chickens.
We have five hens and one cranky rooster. The hens stopped laying eggs in November and probably won't start again until spring.
The reason? The short winter days. Hens need about 14 hours of light a day to...

Last May, I wrote about repeated visits by a group of cattle that kept escaping from a nearby ranch; they were typically led by a cow with distinctive markings and the No. 17 on her ear. The law says it's not really up to the rancher to keep his cattle confined; rather, it's up to us...